Performing Arts Series
The Performing Arts component of Realizing the Dream includes a variety of performances, including storytellers, readings and lectures, and jazz.
Previous Performances
2022
“King and the 1300”
2019
Sharing Our Legacy Dance Theatre
2018
Tami Lee Hughes
2017
“Ragtime”
2016
“Shattered”
2015
“Dreamgirls”
2014
“Four Little Girls: Birmingham 1963”
2013
“Aint Misbehavin,” (Theatre Tuscaloosa)
2012
Reanae McNeal, “The Jazz Singing Women” 2011
“The Miracle Worker” (Theatre Tuscaloosa)
2010
“Driving Miss Daisy”
2009
“God’s Trombones”
2008
“To Kill a Mockingbird”
2007
“A Lesson Before Dying”
2006
“Realizing the Dream 2007: King Alive!”
2005
“Achieving the Dream” (Yolanda King, actress and daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Vanessa Bell Armstrong, gospel singer)
2004
Storyteller Dwe Williams
2003
Storyteller Steven Hobbs
2002
MLK readings by Rev. Warner Durnell, accompanied by jazz trumpeter B. Stanley Graham